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I'm an older IT guy and I used to think this channel was just basic stuff that was kinda beneath me, but nope. Turns out, even if I already know a ton about a given topic, I always end up learning something new here. Definitely worth the subscription.
It's so weird to me that parallel loading is an experimental feature. Back in the dial up / ISDN / early Cable Modem days, having a separate download manager was pretty much a must, and tools like Getright/Jetcar etc. were essential for me, partly to resume downloads later, but partly for multiple connections per file (as long as the server supported that). Glad to see it making a return.
As you said: "as long as the server supported that". Some servers are restrictive about the number of connections you can make to them and with parallel downloading you might get a 429 and fail to download anything.
I work in IT and usually know about these type of featuers, but I have to say that I did not know any of these! These were super cool and I enabled a lot of them - parallel downloading makes a huge difference on my Gibabit line, thank you!!!
This feature was news to me. I have what must be one of the slowest ISP services on the planet, but I've lived with it. I tried this add-on, and it was like switching from dusk to high noon. I was planning to "upgrade" my service, but this may change my plan..
Thank you Thio! I had my monitor for many years, and I never applied a color profile for It since I could not find one that would match my monitor. But with that chrome trick to force a color profile, I found that with DCI P3-D65 applied, I could see the color in that testing site! Now I set It on my monitor as default.
The force color profile I've found is still good on 'normal' displays, since it shows all those out of gamut images relatively correctly, and it keeps or slighty desaturates the in gamut colors.
Oh my thx so much, because of you i figured out how bad my monitor is and how much people who created my model cared for it (they dont). Had to go for an entire adventure and learn 40 different color space terms and differences between them. Visit 1000 websites trying to find dci-p3 color profile specifically for my monitor. But in the end, I just downloaded some generic dci-p3 d65 color profile and im satisfied. Thx a lot
RE: the search suggestions thing Thanks for recommending this, chrome was forever putting some microsoft site above the Akatsuki blog(a naruto from the villains perspective fabric I enjoy) when typing "aka" despite the blog being a site I visit a few times a week and the microsoft site being blocked at my router(because I once visited it by mistake and got annoyed with it demanding all the permissions despite the fact I clearly wanted nothing to do with it). Being able to disable that is awesome. No idea why they felt clearly malicious websites are more important than what the user clearly wants.
Flag: Enable CVC storage and filling for payments autofill Description: When enabled, we will store CVC for both local and server credit cards. This will also allow the users to autofill their CVCs on checkout pages.
I am ofcourse a kid, but a computer one. I know the most what you are talking about, but there are always some mistakes. After like 2 vids i fix a mistake. Definetly worth the Subscribe😊
You should also talk about MS edge browser flags and esp., of android extensions on mobile with 121 version. Coolest thing for mobile users. Using it as I am saying it.
1:15 this used to be a default feature until around chrome 74 where "mute tab" was replaced with "mute site" 0% approval rating, everyone hated it and they didnt care but i guess someone on the team did care and keeps the feature in a hidden flag
clicking the speaker to mute the tab's audio used to be enabled by default. at some point, for whatever reason, they decided to make it disabled by default. i never bothered looking into the flags to see if it was there or not, i simply assumed it was a feature they decided to remove. wouldn't surprise me if people were accidentally clicking the speaker and muting tabs without realizing it and then not knowing why the sound was gone
The tab audio icon was on by default in some version years ago and it was good. But Google kind of screwed it up and it is somewhat annoying to turn it on now. The thing is, now the audio icon disappears after you mute it for a minute or so, and to it is not as simple as one click to unmute it.
Fluent scrollbars is awesome! I always though basic windows scrollbar ui was ancient for modern chrome, i wondered why they didn't change that a long time ago.
I am about to give up on chrome due to the oddities that come up & unable to find or question the help in removing them. Thanks for pointing out these hidden surprise gems
local lan would be nice too, its always a pain getting certs for local domains and using a proper domain, becomes long to type... IP address is easier. setting up your own cert authority is too much of a pain. lets encrypt doesn't work on local domains :(
Don't know if it's still the case, but I recall the tab audio control flag used to act weird for me in pinned tabs where it wouldn't toggle. It still being a flag option is probably because they haven't found/decided on a solution for that.
There's a very good reason not to enable the mute button: when the tabs are small (because you have a lot of them open), it makes it inpossible to click on the tab without muting it. This is a problem I have with Firefox, as it doesn't let you turn this feature off. There's a CSS hack that sorta works, but then it can still be hard to click on a tab. Also, it's not very useful. I can't remember the last time I had to mute a tab. Only videos autoplay, and you can almost always stop them with a single click.
Turns out my monitor can display more colors. Thanks for mentioning this. Now i gotta find out how to have my samsung curved monitor have the right profile.
Tab scrolling sound handy for me.... However it might also slow me down... Since when i start getting too many tabs i just open a new chrome tab separately from all the others.
if im not wrong ive found an option waaay long time ago there for enabling the backspace button as a go back on the webpage like it used to be long time ago
ok going to get shot or maybe disliked, but , folks who are on the macOS platform, theres better alternatives for chrome, that works for the flags mostly, notably Arc and Thorium [ yes, the hoha is over , its still one of the faster web browser without the bloat like brave is going or opera these days ] particularly , flags settings like [ WebGL MSAA Sample Count ] / [ Native GPU Rasterization MSAA Sample Count ] / [Set GPU Available Memory ] makes it just blazingly faster, in comparison, when flags are all default settings P.s theres another good web browser , floorp from a japanese company, might be a ideal alternative for anyone looking out there for non chromium @ThioJoe, could you do a video next, on the fastest [ customized, with flags and about:config for firefox base ] ? and are there flags which actually do increase the persived performance of the web browser ?
The issue I have with tab scrolling is that you can't ser it where the tabs get as small as possible. You wind up with much fewer tabs visible. I want my tabs to be about the size of the favicon. Yes, I know it has several tab width options, but none of them are small enough.
Perfect presentation, everything simple and understandable. You just gained a subscriber to your channel, I will recommend it to my friends. We have the following issue. Have you ever noticed at the end of a video on TH-cam that some huge boxes appear with suggestions for other videos? I have a premium subscription to youtube, I don't want to activate any ad blocker to solve the problem. Do you know how I can solve this problem in chrome windows 10? That is, how can I make some setting so that these frames do not appear at the end of the videos? Thank you for your help and your time.
If Force Color Profile makes your chrome unusable you can open chrome flags in another browser (e.g., Edge) and set it back to SRGB then reopen Chrome.
I tried to run wide gamut test on Android. No matter what profile you choose it doesn't work, but downloading the picture and viewing it in gallery reveals the W
09:02 maybe even more important: color picker programs will pick color that is not exactly what is written in css if color profile is not sRGB (at least in linux x11)
The problem is that in updates they often take away the flags that undo whatever horrid UI feature they've changed, thereby eroding the user experience more and more as the years go on. Useful video tho. I enabled the first 3 and disabled Chrome Refresh 2023 (tho I'm sure they'll soon take that one away). And I already had Smooth Scrolling disabled.
for sure didn't know that the ITU-R BT.2020 color profile could make chrome break so badly that its just white or just black haha, took me an hour to fix lmao
Curious. I do have a custom ICC profile, but Chrome's 'default' seems to be sRGB for me. Changing it to P3 D65 revealed the W in the red box on the website, but now I'm curious if Windows itself is respecting my ICC profile. I've been using this monitor for 8 years and had no idea Chrome would have its own setting for color profiles! Thanks!
I'm gonna use the tab muting and will try the tab scrolling (I have some pinned tabs, so hopefully the scrolling doesn't put them back to the regular tab size). Also, the parallel downloading looks good too. Question for all: does any one know of any way to have Chrome auto-refresh a page? I used to use an extension but it doesn't work anymore. Thanks.
i found out that my monitor (philips 237eqph) supports display p3, but it doesnt seem possible to set it windows wide AND there is no mention about it whatsoever anywhere. Not on any review, the official website, NOTHING. so, yeah
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Ok I’m here to stop kids from saying first
More like grniinn news + ert eidiseis is better
Overlay Scrollbars and Smooth Scrolling are no longer available. please advise
I'm an older IT guy and I used to think this channel was just basic stuff that was kinda beneath me, but nope. Turns out, even if I already know a ton about a given topic, I always end up learning something new here. Definitely worth the subscription.
Being that it's a free subscription, I'd have to say that it's worth well more than the subscription.
It use to be like a how to basic Chanel but people thought the vids were real and he changed to an actual tech channel
Naaah TJ is the GOAT.
Thio is awesome.
as an it my self the first flag is so important especially when downloading on a customer pc that dont have a download manager
It's so weird to me that parallel loading is an experimental feature. Back in the dial up / ISDN / early Cable Modem days, having a separate download manager was pretty much a must, and tools like Getright/Jetcar etc. were essential for me, partly to resume downloads later, but partly for multiple connections per file (as long as the server supported that). Glad to see it making a return.
You should have been here back in the days of punchcard downloading. Now those were fun days. 🙂
IDM
Are there bandwidth concerns on the server's side or anything like that maybe? That's all I could think of.
As you said: "as long as the server supported that". Some servers are restrictive about the number of connections you can make to them and with parallel downloading you might get a 429 and fail to download anything.
I'm impressed that a couple of the flags have been features in Firefox for a while, like the scrolling tabs one
I work in IT and usually know about these type of featuers, but I have to say that I did not know any of these! These were super cool and I enabled a lot of them - parallel downloading makes a huge difference on my Gibabit line, thank you!!!
Thanks so much!!
I enabled the first four immediately and am now browsing other options.
You always show us cool stuff.
I knew about parallel downloads but never checked out the rest. Now I've got the incentive to try it again.
This feature was news to me. I have what must be one of the slowest ISP services on the planet, but I've lived with it. I tried this add-on, and it was like switching from dusk to high noon. I was planning to "upgrade" my service, but this may change my plan..
Thank you Thio! I had my monitor for many years, and I never applied a color profile for It since I could not find one that would match my monitor. But with that chrome trick to force a color profile, I found that with DCI P3-D65 applied, I could see the color in that testing site! Now I set It on my monitor as default.
I went over all chrome flags 6 weeks ago to check every flag on chrome. Thank you for the video :)
Head of IT speaking here... supporting developers on mac, windows and linux. Always nice to learn something new here on this channel.
Tab audio mute button, One time permission, and Tab Scrolling are already default features in Firefox
I can not find it...
found it, sorry, I forgotten UI, thanks
Yea…
I think camera and mic preview is there too
yes same for brave also
The quality of your videos are through the stratosphere!!!
Wow. That was one of my suggestions and you took it seriously. Nice thenks for listening to your viewers
Thanks! Just enabled two of them.
I am learning stuff by Best people, and you are one of them 💙⚡
Dude that tab scrolling one is a godsend. Thank you.
1:31 Because many people will end up accidentally clicking it
The force color profile I've found is still good on 'normal' displays, since it shows all those out of gamut images relatively correctly, and it keeps or slighty desaturates the in gamut colors.
Oh my thx so much, because of you i figured out how bad my monitor is and how much people who created my model cared for it (they dont). Had to go for an entire adventure and learn 40 different color space terms and differences between them. Visit 1000 websites trying to find dci-p3 color profile specifically for my monitor. But in the end, I just downloaded some generic dci-p3 d65 color profile and im satisfied. Thx a lot
The color profile one is really neat!
Yep very few people know about that one
and we shouldnt have to. clearly something somewhere is wrong, windows should apply it automatically etc, @@ThioJoe
Thanks for the Color Profile trick, wow i had a 126% monitor and didn't know it was inactive, the colors look so good!
This is the best tech video I have watched in whole 2024, thanks Joe!
RE: the search suggestions thing
Thanks for recommending this, chrome was forever putting some microsoft site above the Akatsuki blog(a naruto from the villains perspective fabric I enjoy) when typing "aka" despite the blog being a site I visit a few times a week and the microsoft site being blocked at my router(because I once visited it by mistake and got annoyed with it demanding all the permissions despite the fact I clearly wanted nothing to do with it).
Being able to disable that is awesome. No idea why they felt clearly malicious websites are more important than what the user clearly wants.
Flag: Enable CVC storage and filling for payments autofill
Description: When enabled, we will store CVC for both local and server credit cards. This will also allow the users to autofill their CVCs on checkout pages.
I am ofcourse a kid, but a computer one. I know the most what you are talking about, but there are always some mistakes. After like 2 vids i fix a mistake. Definetly worth the Subscribe😊
Thank You Joe for Sharing Computer Tutorials.
Been following TJ since his fake video days😂
These videos are so interesting !! Keep it up
Fake Videos?
why sombody is following professionals like thio whomsoever devoted all his time as a teacher teaches with no fake videos.
Thank you for informing me about tab scrolling.
did you have issues with s? cant even get scroll bars with it enabled on them anymore...
@@stevene_ Don't know what you mean. Works fine for me with shrinking tabs and fading overflow enabled.
The scroll bar thing is called a thumb. It mimics you moving your thumb down a long document as you hold it.
Love the parallel downloading feature. It use to take over ten minutes to download the Windows 11 iso. Now it downloaded in less than five.
Wow these flags are really cool. Thank you!
Thanks Joe, reading the google pages is rather "dry". much better to see a vid. recap.
you are 12
12 times smarter than you.@@apache937
Thanks trying a bunch of them.
Good stuff. I used two of these, so we'll see how that goes. Thanks Joe.
You should also talk about MS edge browser flags and esp., of android extensions on mobile with 121 version. Coolest thing for mobile users. Using it as I am saying it.
1:15
this used to be a default feature until around chrome 74 where "mute tab" was replaced with "mute site"
0% approval rating, everyone hated it and they didnt care
but i guess someone on the team did care and keeps the feature in a hidden flag
Parallel downloading can get you banned from certain servers.
clicking the speaker to mute the tab's audio used to be enabled by default. at some point, for whatever reason, they decided to make it disabled by default. i never bothered looking into the flags to see if it was there or not, i simply assumed it was a feature they decided to remove. wouldn't surprise me if people were accidentally clicking the speaker and muting tabs without realizing it and then not knowing why the sound was gone
Watching this on Firefox.🤘
The tab audio icon was on by default in some version years ago and it was good. But Google kind of screwed it up and it is somewhat annoying to turn it on now. The thing is, now the audio icon disappears after you mute it for a minute or so, and to it is not as simple as one click to unmute it.
Some pretty cool features I'll have to check out!
do we need to change it after every chrome update or not?
Fluent scrollbars is awesome! I always though basic windows scrollbar ui was ancient for modern chrome, i wondered why they didn't change that a long time ago.
There is also dark mode in the flags. Highly recommend
yeah this was definitely a missed one
tab audio muting ui control really is such a good one
Needed my Thio fix 😂
I am about to give up on chrome due to the oddities that come up & unable to find or question the help in removing them. Thanks for pointing out these hidden surprise gems
Use ungoogled chromium bro, all the benefits of chrome without the google part
I gave up on chrome because of the download functionality and google being google and selling data.
@@xanderplayz3446 use ungoogled chrome bro
@@xanderplayz3446 use ungoo.. chrome. Cant put the full name as my comment keeps getting removed
@@xanderplayz3446 use ung00gl3d chr0m3. Can’t put the full name as my comment keeps getting removed
Useful tips ! thanks ! make more videos about these in future
Localhost SSL warnings is very useful for developers to disable :)
local lan would be nice too, its always a pain getting certs for local domains and using a proper domain, becomes long to type... IP address is easier.
setting up your own cert authority is too much of a pain. lets encrypt doesn't work on local domains :(
My favorite is overlay scrollbar, it enables browser wide beautiful scrollbar instead of the ugly windows one. I literally can't live without it
for chrome labs it has an "enabled" and an "enabled use this!" option
Yea I found that funny
which one works better? i'm using "enabled use this" and it seems to not do anything
neither work on chrome release...
I'm a firefox user, and I'm still interested in this video lmfao
How are you making me interested? HOW
This was helpful thank you.
Omnibox URL Priority not showing up for me in the flags. Weird and I don't like the autocompletion either.
You need to search Omnibox Google Drive Document suggestions I was confused by that too.
You can mute tabs in Vivaldi by default and have been able to for quite some time. Vivaldi is the FUTURE!
wow amazing they are making a revolution eh
Don't know if it's still the case, but I recall the tab audio control flag used to act weird for me in pinned tabs where it wouldn't toggle. It still being a flag option is probably because they haven't found/decided on a solution for that.
There's a very good reason not to enable the mute button: when the tabs are small (because you have a lot of them open), it makes it inpossible to click on the tab without muting it.
This is a problem I have with Firefox, as it doesn't let you turn this feature off. There's a CSS hack that sorta works, but then it can still be hard to click on a tab.
Also, it's not very useful. I can't remember the last time I had to mute a tab. Only videos autoplay, and you can almost always stop them with a single click.
Turns out my monitor can display more colors. Thanks for mentioning this. Now i gotta find out how to have my samsung curved monitor have the right profile.
Tab scrolling sound handy for me.... However it might also slow me down... Since when i start getting too many tabs i just open a new chrome tab separately from all the others.
thanks for helping others :D
The color profile is a must have when you have OLED screen, otherwise the pages look extremely washed out
Damn these are really nice! Thanks!!
if im not wrong ive found an option waaay long time ago there for enabling the backspace button as a go back on the webpage like it used to be long time ago
Haven't tried using backspace to go back pages but I do use Alt + Left or Alt + Right to go back and forward on pages on browsers and file managers
ok going to get shot or maybe disliked,
but , folks who are on the macOS platform, theres better alternatives for chrome, that works for the flags mostly,
notably Arc and Thorium [ yes, the hoha is over , its still one of the faster web browser without the bloat like brave is going or opera these days ]
particularly , flags settings like [ WebGL MSAA Sample Count ] / [ Native GPU Rasterization MSAA Sample Count ] / [Set GPU Available Memory ] makes it just blazingly faster, in comparison, when flags are all default settings
P.s theres another good web browser , floorp from a japanese company, might be a ideal alternative for anyone looking out there for non chromium
@ThioJoe, could you do a video next, on the fastest [ customized, with flags and about:config for firefox base ] ?
and are there flags which actually do increase the persived performance of the web browser ?
Very informative and interesting
The issue I have with tab scrolling is that you can't ser it where the tabs get as small as possible. You wind up with much fewer tabs visible. I want my tabs to be about the size of the favicon.
Yes, I know it has several tab width options, but none of them are small enough.
Microsoft Edge already has "Tab Audio Muting Control" by default
Yay!
Thx Joe!!
wow, i didn’t know you could these things
Perfect presentation, everything simple and understandable. You just gained a subscriber to your channel, I will recommend it to my friends. We have the following issue. Have you ever noticed at the end of a video on TH-cam that some huge boxes appear with suggestions for other videos? I have a premium subscription to youtube, I don't want to activate any ad blocker to solve the problem. Do you know how I can solve this problem in chrome windows 10? That is, how can I make some setting so that these frames do not appear at the end of the videos? Thank you for your help and your time.
Color profile setup is a very less known thing for the mass thanks for sharing it ... Guys subscribe his channel he simplifies awesome things
If Force Color Profile makes your chrome unusable you can open chrome flags in another browser (e.g., Edge) and set it back to SRGB then reopen Chrome.
I tried to run wide gamut test on Android. No matter what profile you choose it doesn't work, but downloading the picture and viewing it in gallery reveals the W
1:02 But how did it compare with it set on Default? This option seems like the sorr of thing that might default to being on.
This is why I have you subscribed I wish I could watch your video in Hindi. 😢
😢
Unfortunately the hindi AI voice seems to have a lot of errors
09:02 maybe even more important: color picker programs will pick color that is not exactly what is written in css if color profile is not sRGB (at least in linux x11)
I already knew about these
SAVING TAB GROUPS and placing them on the bookmarks bar!!!!
Good stuff 👍👍👍👍
The problem is that in updates they often take away the flags that undo whatever horrid UI feature they've changed, thereby eroding the user experience more and more as the years go on.
Useful video tho. I enabled the first 3 and disabled Chrome Refresh 2023 (tho I'm sure they'll soon take that one away). And I already had Smooth Scrolling disabled.
I just used the TLS min and max features in Firefox to troubleshoot an Apache HTTP+Tomcat webservice that wasnt behaving properly
for sure didn't know that the ITU-R BT.2020 color profile could make chrome break so badly that its just white or just black haha, took me an hour to fix lmao
ditto. still figuring out how to fix it.
@@hanssolo8100 if I remember correctly, I could still select the text, it just wasn't rendered. With that, you can (kinda) find the settings again
13:30 Nice video, but as a science teacher, that's an Erlenmeyer (flask) and not a beaker 😉😂
very useful. could you do one for firefox?
13:30 Isn't that an icon of an Erlenmeyer flask?
The mute icon was already a default feature but then they made the icon not clickable for some reason.
I'm sure I've been using the feature you showed second for years
That thing that you are calling a "scrollbar" is called a "handle". The scrollbar is the entire "track" from top to bottom.
Curious. I do have a custom ICC profile, but Chrome's 'default' seems to be sRGB for me. Changing it to P3 D65 revealed the W in the red box on the website, but now I'm curious if Windows itself is respecting my ICC profile.
I've been using this monitor for 8 years and had no idea Chrome would have its own setting for color profiles! Thanks!
The tab audio muting control is enabled in Edge by default
Good to know 🧐
Firefox also has this feature and it's enabled by default
I used IDM for downloading. 6 Parallel connections
Every Flag you have mentioned in this video is available in Microsoft Edge right?
Only spying is available in Edge.
Weird... The second settings is always enabled for me. So much that I even mute accidentally some tabs, while clicking to switch to another 😅
When enabling Chrome Labs you can choose "enabled" or "enabled use this one"! what's the difference???
Joe what is your default browser? Edge is really good
EDGE View Scrolling thingy, it was so frustrating to grab it. thank you. now i can make it not overlay. Don't disappear, STAY.
After Disabling it, YESS it stays !
I'm gonna use the tab muting and will try the tab scrolling (I have some pinned tabs, so hopefully the scrolling doesn't put them back to the regular tab size). Also, the parallel downloading looks good too.
Question for all: does any one know of any way to have Chrome auto-refresh a page? I used to use an extension but it doesn't work anymore. Thanks.
As one of the three remaining Firefox users I'm like: Wait, that's a special setting and not just the default behaviour? XD
i found out that my monitor (philips 237eqph) supports display p3, but it doesnt seem possible to set it windows wide AND there is no mention about it whatsoever anywhere. Not on any review, the official website, NOTHING. so, yeah